Anyone can remember magazine popular mechanics as early as the 1950s can remember stories illustrated on the next super-suits - these metal exoskeletons that enable human lift an incredible amount of weight and run fast like a speeding bullet. The concept has received gets boost in 1986, when Sigourney Weaver enfilé one oversized in a film for fight against an alien.
But finally, they can finally be a reality.
A year after unveiling its wearer human universal load, or HULC, Lockheed Martin has now an army of 1.1 million dollar contract to test his robot costume, and he had his last version - 4th generation - on display this week modern day marine at Quantico Marine Corps base, Virginie La color allows a carrier to carry up to 150 pounds as if it were a fraction of the weight.
The latest version weighs approximately 60 books - some 10 pounds lighter than last year - model and also offer a greater mobility than unveiled in 2009, Keith Maxwell, Director business development Lockheed Martin who was wearing costume muscle at Quantico September 29 shows military.com.Marine body will probably begin combination of tests for himself next spring sometimes says Maxwell.
But HULC may be in some "Iron Man" contest, some media name gave the XOS-2_,_un product of Raytheon is muscling exoskeleton company.
Where HULC is elegant and bears up close to the body, XOS-2 screens, its metal arms, legs and attached extension well outside .in body a bearer of Raytheon, video is shown lifting 200 pounds of weight with no effort.
But while Raytheon has shown a number of products to its exhibition at Quantico space this week XOS-2 was not between eux.Mais it will be the sphere national outside of DC, next month for the US Army exhibition association, says a plan of expo, Raytheon représentant.Conformément Raytheon and Lockheed Martin will not be far from each other.
Thus it will be a HULC versus Iron Man smack down in Washington?
This would be the fight is worth paying for voir.Même without Sigourney Weaver.
-Jordan Bryant
30 September 2010 | logistics, robots | 43 comments
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